The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 78
‘You are a brave youth, and I will make you my body-servant.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, make · To what, where: brave youth, body servant, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 youth | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 youth | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 youth | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 youth | amod |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 youth | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servant | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 servant | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 body | punct |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 youth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a brave youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | future | I | my body servant | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary servant=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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